- This event has passed.
East Asian Studies Student Symposium
May 16 @ 08:00 - May 17 @ 17:00
The Center for East Asian Studies at the West University of Timișoara invites presentations for its first East Asian Studies Student Symposium to take place in hybrid format on May 16, 2025. Abstracts are invited in all research areas and periods for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing degrees and research topics in East Asian studies (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan). Abstracts are expected to be submitted in English or Romanian, be no longer than 250 words, and be received by April 10th at email address: csea@e-uvt.ro
Presentations are invited in person, as well as virtually, depending on the presenter’s availability. The Center for East Asian Studies will cover accommodation for one to two nights for participants who are able to attend in person.
For any other inquiries related to the Symposium, students and their coordinating professors are encouraged to contact the organizers at the email address of The Center for East Asian Studies (csea@e-uvt.ro).
Final Schedule
Online streaming link
On May 16th-17th the East Asian Studies Center of the Faculty of Letters, History, Philosophy and Theology hosted the first International East Asian Studies Symposium.
This year, we received students from the West University of Timisoara from the English-Japanese and Romanian-Japanese language and literature specialties, as well as from other cities such as Bucharest, Alba-Iulia, and from outside the country, originating from Serbia and Armenia. The participants were given the choice of presenting in person or online, with hybrid panels at WUT streamed on Google Meet.
The interest has exceeded expectations, with over 30 participants, most of them attending in person, which contributed to an invaluable exchange between students. The panels were varied in topics, approaching literature, religion, history, culture, media and others in Japan, Korea and China, as well as in the language used, with panels in Romanian and in English.
The symposium itself was launched at the request and with the help of our 2nd year students from the English-Japanese specialty, who have dedicated their time ensuring its success in terms of logistics, selecting papers and communicating with participants among other tasks.
Our team:
Bobiț Arintina
Busuioc Ana
Chira Alexandra
Cvașa Anamaria
Demian Miruna
Faur Alexia
Ilban “Nate” Andrei
Rus Andreea
Șerban Mihaela
Tănase Teodora
Török Daria
Last but not least, this event would have been impossible without the coordination and support of the CSEA founder, George T. Sipos, PhD.
This is but the first of many editions so stay tuned to find out about next year’s symposium!
